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Time Length
  • 1 Day

Instructions
  • Make a new page on your wiki titled "2-8 Cosmic Voyage."
  • Copy the questions to your page, and answer them there.

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Worksheet
1. What is the simple scale we use everyday to determine what is large and small?
2. What did most people assume was the center of the unchanging universe?
3. What did Galileo see on the moon with his telescope?
4. What is represented by each of these following circle sizes?
1 meter =
1000 meters or 1 kilometer =
6 powers of 10 (1 x 106 meters) =
8 powers of 10 (1 x 108 meters) =
13 powers of 10 (1 x 1013 meters) =
5. What is a light year?
6. How many years would traveling to the nearest star take?
7. What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek invent?
8. What is one of the two particles inside the nucleus of an atom?
9. How long would the collision of two galaxies really last?
10. What is the name for exploding stars?
11. What is the bacteria that is thought to have first produced oxygen called?
12. Why are black holes called “black holes”?